Baggage-transfer.



G. TRAMUTOLO. BAGGAGE IRANSFR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.30. |916.

1 ,273,424. Patented July 23, 1918.

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INVENTOR wlTNEssEs ATTORNEY G. TRAMUTOLO.

BAGGAGE HANSFER.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.30. |915.

l ,273,424. v Patented July 23, 1918.

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f7 4 d f3 l u zd 2*/ f ATTORNEY UNITE GERARDO TRAM'UTOLO, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BAGGAGE-TRANSFER.

n Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1918.

Application filed August 30, 1916. Serial No. 117,713.

To all whom t may concern:

lie it known that I, Germano a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baggage- Transfers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a mail, baggage, etc., deliverer and receiver for railway trains.

The object of this invention is to provide a deliverer and receiver of the type above set forth that is wholly carried by the train and is automatically operated as the car passes a platform adjacent the track.

Another object of this invention is to provide a device of the kind above described that is simple in construction, efficient in operation and consists of the minimum number of parts.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary horizontal sec tional view of a car provided with this device and the platform adjacent the car, the same being shown in top plan.

Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the device as shown in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary transverse sec tional view of the device as shown in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4t is a detail perspective view of the improved device.

Referring to the parts by reference numerals, the car floor is designated by the numeral 10 and has an opening 11 formed therein adjacent the door of the car. Journaled in thisA opening 11 is a standard 12 that extends above and below the floor bottom 10 and that portion below the bottom 10 is designated by the numeral 13, the same being polygonal in cross section. An open- T nA M U'roLo,

ing 14 is formed in the standard 12 at an appreciable distance from the car floor 10 and an operating bar 15 is adapted to be inserted in this opening, as is clearly shown in the accompanying drawings` for manual manipulation of the device. A pair of object engaging arms 16 and 17 are secured to the standard 12 and engage the upper face of .the car bottom 10, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, the arms 16 and 17 are flared at the ends thereof as at 18 and 19.

To normally retain the standard 12 in a desired position and thus position the arms 16 and 17 for the obvious purpose, there is connected with the portion 13 of the standard 12, a coil spring 20. A lever 21 is pivoted as at 22 to the undeil face of the car bottom 10, theysaid lever having an outwardly curved portion 23 and a notch 24 is formed in the same adjacent the opposite end thereof from the formation of the curved portion 23. A coil spring 25 is attached to one end of the lever 21 as is shown to an advantage in Fig. 2, and normally retains the said lever in engagement with the standard 12 or, more specifically, the polygonal portion 13 is positioned in the notch 24: to prevent the rotation of the standard. As is clearly shown in Figs. l and 2, a portion of the curved end 23 of the lever 21 extends beyond the side of the car and is adapted to be engaged by the ordinary platform, designated by the numeral 26 that lies adjacent the track on which the car runs.

In operation, the standard 12 is rotated against the tension of the spring 20 so that the same is in a position as shown in Fig. 1, that is, the arm 16 is wholly within the ear and a portion of the arm 17 projects therefrom. A package to be discharged, for the sake of convenience, designated by the numeral 27, is positioned as is shown in Fig. 1, against the arm 16 and a package to be delivered to the car is placed on the platform adjacent the car track in the path of the arm 17 and the arm and standard are retained in this position by means of the engagement of the polygonal portion 13 of the standard with the lever 21. As the car passes the platform 26, the rounded end 23 of the leverl 21 will engage the edge of the platform and rock the lever upon its pivot point and thus move the notch thereof from engagement with the polygonal portion 13 of the standard 12 and the spring 20 will oscillate the standard and move the arms 16 and 17 so that the package 27 will be deposited on the platform 26 and the package 28 that was placed in the path of the arm 17 will be deposited in the car. To reset the device, the bar 15 can be placed in the opening 14 and the rod moved against tension of the spring 20 and the lever 21 will obviously move, by means of the Spring 25,

so as to engage the rod to the standard and prevent the rotation of the saine.'

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the forni and construction of this invention without departing froni the inaterial parts thereof. It is therefore not wished to confine the invention to the eXact forni herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the `scope claimed. Y f f A device of the kind described, a support, a standard journaled in said support, said standard having a polygonal portion at one i end thereof, a spring in engagement with 15 said polygonal portion for urging said standard in one position, a pivoted lever on said support having` a notch formed therein to receive said polygonal portion of said standard for releasably securingsaid stand- 20 ard in the, position against the tension of said spring.k

/In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.4

GERRY TRAMUTOLO.

Witnesses: EDWARD L. DUNCAN, WALTER-M. WARD.

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